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what's so fascinating about the reception to this on the right is that romney substancetively moved to the left, no question, and it's also the moment that he's been most embraced by the right. >> exactly. >> the reason is this, the thing conservatives care the most about is pissing off liberals. the thing that makes them happiest is when liberals are angry at you. if you infuriate liberals by moving to the left and confounding their beloved president, they're going to love you. they don't care. >> one more thing, they don't really worry that he would actually do what he says. >> that's the other thing. that is the big question. >> they know that once he gets elected he'll move back to the right but not as far right as he was during the primaries. >> at least they think so. >> they think so. >> the larger question, is anyone going to change their opinion based on this quote, unquote, lackluster performance by the president. if you supported him, you might be disappointed, calling joy wondering what happened but you're still going to vote for the president. >> it's the undecided. >> who
what's so fascinating about the reception to this on the right is that romney substancetively moved to the left, no question, and it's also the moment that he's been most embraced by the right. >> exactly. >> the reason is this, the thing conservatives care the most about is pissing off liberals. the thing that makes them happiest is when liberals are angry at you. if you infuriate liberals by moving to the left and confounding their beloved president, they're going to love you....
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the right is going along because its partisans know romney has no other option. this, too, is an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has no legs. brendan dougherty is with us. it is always great to have you here. i want to play this. i think this is fascinating because i think the tea party dominated all discussions of american politics for a while and then just seemed to kind of disappear from the discussion. and part of that has to do with the fact that they took over the house so the tea period became the house caucus. it was channelled into that. part of that has to do with the fact that what once was a good part, it has become a terrible brand. you see this reflected in democratic candidates stopping at nothing to invote the tea party against the candidates. take a look at their candidate. >> do you think richard mourdock will work with both parties to get things done? hardly. voters are deciding between linda mcmahon and myself. they're deciding whether the tea party should be p
the right is going along because its partisans know romney has no other option. this, too, is an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has no legs. brendan dougherty is with us. it is always great to have you here. i want to play this. i think this is fascinating because i think the tea party dominated all discussions of american politics for a while and then just seemed to kind of disappear from the discussion. and...
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and -- have hurt mitt romney and yet there is an increasing industry growing up on the right to just deny this. and i'm not even sure like what the point of it is. i mean, maybe you're right, but then isn't it all just going to on election day be exposed as like -- i'm just fascinated by the growth of this industry, joe. >> well, one of the things that i see, and this is outside of politics because i write about economics so much, is i use charts a lot in my writing, you know, comparing public sector employment, private sector. i see the same thing all the time. this aggression against data or they're convinced that all data is manipulated darks at that is a lie. if i show that private sector employment has actually done relatively well under obama, relatively well compared to past recoveries and most of the job losses have been in the public sector, people think it's a lie. the debate ends because i can't, you know -- there's nowhere to go from there. they refuse to believe it. i see this happen -- so i see this happen all the time. i think what i thought when i saw the unskewed pol
and -- have hurt mitt romney and yet there is an increasing industry growing up on the right to just deny this. and i'm not even sure like what the point of it is. i mean, maybe you're right, but then isn't it all just going to on election day be exposed as like -- i'm just fascinated by the growth of this industry, joe. >> well, one of the things that i see, and this is outside of politics because i write about economics so much, is i use charts a lot in my writing, you know, comparing...
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of which have become common place to the point of cliche in right wing circles and ones in which romney offered inside the safety and conservative bubble and it was leaked out. in the song, 10 crack commandments biggie smalls offered a set of rules for drug dealers who want to avoid perils. >> never get high on your own supply. >> same with political strategists. don't start believing that everyone out there in the voting booth is seeing the world the way you do. the gop has i think lost sight of this simple wisdom. they are now smoking what they're dealing. it's a big part of why those poll numbers look the way they do and a good reminder of the dysfunction and incompetence that happen when people in charge only listen to themselves. i'm going to talk to my panel about the consequences of living inside the conservative bubble when we get back. maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can i
of which have become common place to the point of cliche in right wing circles and ones in which romney offered inside the safety and conservative bubble and it was leaked out. in the song, 10 crack commandments biggie smalls offered a set of rules for drug dealers who want to avoid perils. >> never get high on your own supply. >> same with political strategists. don't start believing that everyone out there in the voting booth is seeing the world the way you do. the gop has i think...
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. >> right. >> mitt romney did, let's remember, i think just last month, talking to our friend laura ingram, was confronted by the fact that it was already getting better, again, not good enough. >> it gets better. >> he's like, no, no, it doesn't. >> not on my watch. >> he conceded that it did. >> it's going to be a perfect sound bite for the campaign for november because it was like, yes, of course the economy is getting better. he's like, well, do you have any better ideas for me, laura? he said that. he was stuck. >> poor baby. >> romney is the one to watch, i think. he's essentially built a single issue candidacy. >> absolutely. >> it's sort of like a table that only has one leg and the leg is -- >> yep. >> there is something i can do for this economy that barack obama either doesn't know how to do or refuses to do. and you know, just as a political reporter chronicling this race, once the obama people or the jobs numbers undercut that leg, i just don see where that candidacy goes. >> i think that's a great point. i actually have in some ways, i think, counterintuitively, i thou
. >> right. >> mitt romney did, let's remember, i think just last month, talking to our friend laura ingram, was confronted by the fact that it was already getting better, again, not good enough. >> it gets better. >> he's like, no, no, it doesn't. >> not on my watch. >> he conceded that it did. >> it's going to be a perfect sound bite for the campaign for november because it was like, yes, of course the economy is getting better. he's like, well, do...
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>> the other group of obama voter that is romney is aiming at right after this. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian, and she suggests that i try boost complete nutritional drink to help get the nutrition i was missing. now i drink it every day and i love the great taste. [ female announcer ] boost has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to help keep bones strong and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. and our great taste is guaranteed or youmoney back. learn more at boost.com. [ dad ] i choose great taste. i choose boost. how long since you worried about flakes? since before jeans were this skinny. not since us three got a haircut. not si
>> the other group of obama voter that is romney is aiming at right after this. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well....
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if you look at the nominees, john mccain and mitt romney, that the right wing base of the party didn't get its wish with either john mccain and mitt romney and i'm curious to get your feedback. this is not mitt romney's platform, this is the republican party. >> i'd say a couple things. excuse me. in both parties the activists are always going to be driving the agenda and the platforms are the ones pushing the candidates to adhere to certain principals. how the republican party activist base has evolved. in the 1990s more of this social conservativi conservatism activists. it's very much about the debt and that's the driver of the republican party in a way that 15, 20 years wasn't true. >> people say that and i don't buy it. this was the story we were told about the tea party, oh, gone are the days of evangelicals on the cover of "time" magazine, george w. bush. do you guys feel that is the case, they made this turn away from social issues. >> the house republicans come in and one thing they try to do is defund planned parenthood. the thing about todd aiken is the tragedy for todd akin
if you look at the nominees, john mccain and mitt romney, that the right wing base of the party didn't get its wish with either john mccain and mitt romney and i'm curious to get your feedback. this is not mitt romney's platform, this is the republican party. >> i'd say a couple things. excuse me. in both parties the activists are always going to be driving the agenda and the platforms are the ones pushing the candidates to adhere to certain principals. how the republican party activist...
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and we'll talk about mitt romney's secret weapon. >> all right. melissa perry coming up next. >> we know now the critics were pressing when they warned governor jeb bush not to sign the law. it's how governor bush defended the law at the time. >> when you're in a position where you're being threatened and there's a life-threatening situation to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, it defies common sense. >> we also know the number of justifiable homicides has app creased 25 times since 2005. we know that we're pushed by alec, the legislative exchange council and the national rifle association. we know that keeping the peace is as core a state function as exists. and it's time to throw in the towel on the entire experiment. the so called d.c. bad boy reporter posted this interview of youtube's bono. >> you're not in charge of your own company? you have no say in what youtube does? >> not particularly. >> you don't? >> we know the video has since been taken down because that wasn't bono in the video but a bono impersonator
and we'll talk about mitt romney's secret weapon. >> all right. melissa perry coming up next. >> we know now the critics were pressing when they warned governor jeb bush not to sign the law. it's how governor bush defended the law at the time. >> when you're in a position where you're being threatened and there's a life-threatening situation to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, it defies common sense. >> we also know the number of...
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. >> two days later, after being barraged by the right, romney did a 180. >> the supreme court has a final word and their final word is that obama care is a tax. so, it's a tax. >> the tax versus penalty capped a week of political fallout over chief justice john roberts' decision to join the four liberals on the court as constitutional. jan crawford reported based on two unnamed sources in the court that roberts initially voted with conservatives in the court to strike down the mandate. the vote switch was evidence that it was motivated by political and the other major finding in that case that expanding medicaid is constitutional. at least seven republican governors have now said they will refuse to implement the medicaid expansion in their states, potentially leaving more than 2.3 million americans uninsured in those states alone. joining us at the table is normal orenstein and the resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. first question for you, out of the decision there was an interesting debate that happened i think among progressive and other journalists. about whe
. >> two days later, after being barraged by the right, romney did a 180. >> the supreme court has a final word and their final word is that obama care is a tax. so, it's a tax. >> the tax versus penalty capped a week of political fallout over chief justice john roberts' decision to join the four liberals on the court as constitutional. jan crawford reported based on two unnamed sources in the court that roberts initially voted with conservatives in the court to strike down...
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so in the -- if in the example of the romney blueprint, right, which again a not detailed and so on but includes things -- basically includes a large expansion of illegal immigration and hopefully reforms and str streamlining -- >> how can he plauzably do that? >> i think -- there are a lot of different elements at work in conservative opposition to imgraig, but part of the opposition is a focus on issues of law and order, right? there is a strong conservative sensibility that i thirpg is not totally unreasonable. yes, we should welcome them and maybe we should welcome more of them, but that doesn't mean that we should grant citizenship to people who broke our laws. >> and then there's a disconnect between -- okay, we recognize that people are here illegally. and what should bedo. from where i'm sitting, the republicans seem to be saying -- it seems to halt the conversation right there. everybody's going they're doing massive deportations. >> that's exactly where the conversation goes. you can't do mass deportations. you don't do anything. >> you don't do anything about -- about people
so in the -- if in the example of the romney blueprint, right, which again a not detailed and so on but includes things -- basically includes a large expansion of illegal immigration and hopefully reforms and str streamlining -- >> how can he plauzably do that? >> i think -- there are a lot of different elements at work in conservative opposition to imgraig, but part of the opposition is a focus on issues of law and order, right? there is a strong conservative sensibility that i...
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you should know that right wing billionaire and mitt romney continue to wine and raptd about regulation. it can actually save businesses money. they found that those work sites subjected to random safety inspections reduced injuries by 9ch and saved 26% in workers' compensation costs in the four years following the inspection. the study found no negative impact on profit and sales. you should know that not only it can be good for workers an come sew i want to find out what my guests know. we'll start with you bill black. >> spachblt everyone agrees greece is a special case, but spain coming into the crisis had bushlgt surpluses and was praised. it has a bubble in residential real estate that was roughly twice as large ads the u.s. bubble and has been pretending that everything is hunky-dory. so it's been hiding massive bank los angeleses and unemployment is 26%. in southern spain, 30%. youth unemployment is over 50%. >> in any event, everyone's going to focus on spain. >> it's a massively bigger economy than greece and will cause a systemic crisis. >> betsy? >> what people should know i
you should know that right wing billionaire and mitt romney continue to wine and raptd about regulation. it can actually save businesses money. they found that those work sites subjected to random safety inspections reduced injuries by 9ch and saved 26% in workers' compensation costs in the four years following the inspection. the study found no negative impact on profit and sales. you should know that not only it can be good for workers an come sew i want to find out what my guests know. we'll...
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mitt romney made similar cases. it is something -- the revenue on the right. somehow the election of barack obama, the man, black man with the foreign sounding man, has taken america off the path of americ americanand making it into what it is at the core. >> i just want to judgment in on both the name check which happened twice in the speech as well as american exceptionalism point. one if this is about anger at the elite, solinski may be a model. if we are talking about -- there is a by that which we have to ask exactly this question. even if it doesn't bring the name immediately, what is using that name men to do when olinski would be a lovely model angry at the elites and looking at below the poverty line in south carolina. this is the point about american exceptionalism. it is a code word for this kind of aggressive international action when it could be a very different way of thinking about exceptionalism. when president obama was senator obama making his pitch, he says only in america my story. even possible. he's in many ways perhaps the embodiment of
mitt romney made similar cases. it is something -- the revenue on the right. somehow the election of barack obama, the man, black man with the foreign sounding man, has taken america off the path of americ americanand making it into what it is at the core. >> i just want to judgment in on both the name check which happened twice in the speech as well as american exceptionalism point. one if this is about anger at the elite, solinski may be a model. if we are talking about -- there is a by...
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let's remember, rick perry, right, was going to be the great hope, right? he showed up and basically mitt romney pulled out this machete called "the dream act" which had been passed in texas and he just stuck it in rick perry's gut over and over and totally dispatched him from the race using this issue by demagoguing on this issue saying you are giving to illegal, illegals, illegals. let's just remember the context here. >> now he says marco rubio says this, i'll hide behind marco rubio. >> one point for me was the political capital that the president is absolutely going to gain with latinos in florida, which is a huge swing state for the general election. when, in his state of the union address, he literally spoke about he's going to up the deportations and we saw record numbers in 2011. he was now playing politics with the republican party about, if i do this for you, maybe we can get something from you, what he had done was abandon the mandate of the people who put them in the office in the first place. his movement he has switched back to the direction
let's remember, rick perry, right, was going to be the great hope, right? he showed up and basically mitt romney pulled out this machete called "the dream act" which had been passed in texas and he just stuck it in rick perry's gut over and over and totally dispatched him from the race using this issue by demagoguing on this issue saying you are giving to illegal, illegals, illegals. let's just remember the context here. >> now he says marco rubio says this, i'll hide behind...
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mitt romney took 38% of the vote with ron paul at 25%. beating rick santorum by a hair at 24% for second place. we will get to the republican contest in just a moment. right now joining me today we have returning to the program congressman steve cohen, tennessee. michelle bernard, founder, president, and ceo of bernard center for women, politics and public policy. goldie taylor author of "uncivil war." john mcwhorter, columbia university professor of linguistic and american studies and contributing editor at "new republic" and theroot.com. we are just a couple of days away from super tuesday with primaries and caulkes in 11 states and 424 delegates at stake. voters in states including ohio, massachusetts, tennessee will choose more delegates than have been awarded so far. i think we are well past the giddy exuberance phase of the early gop primary with a shiny new front-runner each week. we are into the middle stretch. no one is ready to throw in the towel but a field of malaise hangs over the race. rick santorum gets getting by congressi
mitt romney took 38% of the vote with ron paul at 25%. beating rick santorum by a hair at 24% for second place. we will get to the republican contest in just a moment. right now joining me today we have returning to the program congressman steve cohen, tennessee. michelle bernard, founder, president, and ceo of bernard center for women, politics and public policy. goldie taylor author of "uncivil war." john mcwhorter, columbia university professor of linguistic and american studies...
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far is down from both 2000 and 2008 and among conservatives in the base and right wing establishment an increasingly panicked and resigned sense they are in the midst of an institutional identity crisis. it favors romney as the nominee but the base doesn't like him very much and a stalemate seems to have settled in. romney probably can't lose but in the short term doesn't look like he can win either. a future of the koch funded institute. koch brothers have sued to control the think tank. for progress sifs all this wive amusement. are they enjoying a clean sweep right now? it is important to remember that our politics are often dual tracked. sometimes trivial and sometimes important and conflicts we don't see and obscure or technical or more often than not the real action of politics, the struggle between public good and private interests happens in the very fine print and not in the headlines. if conservatives looking the place we had been looking i'm cheered by the things happening behind the scenes. monitoring the implementation of the dodd frank financial reform bill and report t
far is down from both 2000 and 2008 and among conservatives in the base and right wing establishment an increasingly panicked and resigned sense they are in the midst of an institutional identity crisis. it favors romney as the nominee but the base doesn't like him very much and a stalemate seems to have settled in. romney probably can't lose but in the short term doesn't look like he can win either. a future of the koch funded institute. koch brothers have sued to control the think tank. for...
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not to help any sort of inequality, to preserve inequality. >> and extend privilege. >> right, right. right. everyone wants to see the president's grades. everyone skeptical of what affirmative action did for him. we don't believe him, is he a citizen? no one skeptical of mitt romney, given the fact that no one thinks how he was born, how that housing helped him. the whole time in which he comes from may have aided his rise. i'm not saying anybody should, but the skepticism toward obama is not one reflected across the screen. very particular skeptic. >> racism not just hatred, but trust toward some group of people and skepticism toward others. >> that one of the lines in the text that distresses me. when you read that line, a gorgeous writer so seductive. it's true i read the line and it says racism is in part defined by a preferential option for one group and skepticism toward another. but if it is that solely or primarily, than black folks are the biggest racists i know, a deep skepticism, i think we have to make sure we're layering on top of the emotives and socialistic preferences
not to help any sort of inequality, to preserve inequality. >> and extend privilege. >> right, right. right. everyone wants to see the president's grades. everyone skeptical of what affirmative action did for him. we don't believe him, is he a citizen? no one skeptical of mitt romney, given the fact that no one thinks how he was born, how that housing helped him. the whole time in which he comes from may have aided his rise. i'm not saying anybody should, but the skepticism toward...
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the gop base does not like mitt romney very much. we know three-judge panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals voted 2-1 krachlted's prop 8 took away the right to their right to gay and lesbian marriage was unconstitutional. rick santorum claimed the obama administration is, quote, appointing justices of a family that gets in the way of controlling your life. republicans making the convoluted argument that allowing some people to love and marry each other. we also know now the name of rick santorum's personal multimillion air sponsor. we know he joined santorum on stage last tuesday after his victories that night and we know the spector of the super rich placing bets on their pet politicians and racing them down the tract is a reality in the free for all environment. after leading the knicks to four consecutive victories with show stopping performances and scoring unprecedented nba record 89 points in his first three starts, we now know that undrafted harvard educated second-year new york knicks point guard jeremy lin is the real
the gop base does not like mitt romney very much. we know three-judge panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals voted 2-1 krachlted's prop 8 took away the right to their right to gay and lesbian marriage was unconstitutional. rick santorum claimed the obama administration is, quote, appointing justices of a family that gets in the way of controlling your life. republicans making the convoluted argument that allowing some people to love and marry each other. we also know now the name of rick...
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here's mitt romney's take on that. here he is talking about this loss. >> this was not a loss to the taxpayer. this was a loss to shareholders and owners of jp morgan and that's the way america works. some people experience a loss in this case because of a bad decision. by the way, there was someone who made a game, the $2 billion jp morgan lost, someone else gained. >> so why -- why shouldn't we just shrug our shoulders? >> i would be totally cool with that if jp morgan was a hedge fund. and i think all of that part of the analysis is right. i don't buy that this proves that jamie dimon is an idiot. what this shows to me is that the big banks are still having to put on very, very massive bets to deliver the kind of profits that their shareholders and their senior executives expect. and 2008 should have taught us we don't want systemic banking institutions to do that. we want them to be utilities, not casinos. dodd-frank was not imposed upon them partly because of the highly effectiveness of jamie dimon himself. it's n
here's mitt romney's take on that. here he is talking about this loss. >> this was not a loss to the taxpayer. this was a loss to shareholders and owners of jp morgan and that's the way america works. some people experience a loss in this case because of a bad decision. by the way, there was someone who made a game, the $2 billion jp morgan lost, someone else gained. >> so why -- why shouldn't we just shrug our shoulders? >> i would be totally cool with that if jp morgan was a...